Self-Determination of Poetic Language in Figures of Irony (on the Example of Contemporary Russian Poetry) Cover Image

Самоопределение поэтического языка в фигурах иронии (на примере современной российской поэзии)
Self-Determination of Poetic Language in Figures of Irony (on the Example of Contemporary Russian Poetry)

Author(s): Svetlana Kardinskaya
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: contemporary Russian poetry; ironic figure; hermeneutic method; poetic subject; variability of writing

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to philosophical reflection on contemporary Russian ironic poetry. Poetic texts from the late 20th — early 21st centuries by such authors as Igor Irtenev, Vyacheslav Leikin, Valentin Bobretsov, Vadim Pugach and Alexey Sychev were used as examples. To analyze ironic poems, the author developed a research model that presents the poetic text as a space for self-reflection of poetic language at the limit of subjectivity. The theoretical basis of the study was the understanding of the existence of language in the concepts of J. Lacan, J. Deleuze, J.-L. Nancy, R. Barthes. For the analysis of poetic texts, the hermeneutic method was used, based on the holistic approach of F. Schelling. The article shows the mechanisms of formation of new ways of expression (ironic figures) in places of fractures of stable language orders. The existence of language, at the same time, reveals its “non-existence” — problematic and understatement. The ironic effect is achieved in the process of skirting the lacunae (the unspoken) and repeating the relief of the figures of silence. Being in the zone of uncertainty of the linguistic order, ironic subjectivity reveals its redundancy as an infinite variability of writing. Presented in linguistic form, the ironic figure produces a shift in the linguistic “network”, forcing the entire linguistic whole to be (re)defined.

  • Issue Year: 2026
  • Issue No: 109
  • Page Range: 401-413
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian
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